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From: Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it>
Subject: Re: Bug: Re: Latex export: Differing behavior for symbols in
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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:42:29 +0200
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Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu> writes:

Hi, Richard,

> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
>
>>> 1) Is this difference between whole-document vs. current-subtree export
>>> the expected behavior?
>>> 
>> Looks like a bug to me. I can reproduce it too.
>
> Was my original email enough to constitute a bug report?  

Well, a week ago Carsten wrote[1]:

"Org-mode will never be a perfect TeX scanner, and this is really hard.
 Help yourself and Org by using \( and \) as math delimiters [...] "

How about:

* Headline 1
** Headline 2, concerning \(\alpha\) and \(\beta\)

that will be exported as:

\title{Headline 2, concerning \($\alpha$\) and \($\beta$\)}

cheers,
Giovanni

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2010-10/msg00981.html